Entry Category: Education Systems & Schooling

The teaching of the mother tongue of foreign language learners at school: A long-term effort with positive results

The article presents a multi-year educational intervention implemented under the responsibility and coordination of the Teaching Staff Association of a multicultural school in central Athens. The initiative focused on the instruction of the native languages of non-native students. Despite the broad participation and the well-documented pedagogical benefits for the entire student body, the initiative faced

“Schools need to open in the afternoon to be schools”: teaching Greek to parents and community members in a public school in Athens.

This study explores, through qualitative methodology, the pedagogical goals and practices of primary school teachers who teach Greek to adult migrant parents and community members in a public school in Athens. It examines instructional approaches, the dynamic interaction with learners, and the formation of an inclusive educational space, where communication and coexistence with the formal

The Ombudsman for Children for the 132 Primary School of Athens

During the 2007-2008 school year, the Ombudsman for Children followed up on an issue that had arisen regarding the operation of the 132nd Primary School of Athens. He visited the school, met and discussed with the students and the Teachers’ Council and addressed to the Ministry of Education his observations and questions concerning the safeguarding

Young Children Big Challenges – Pre-school Education & children with refugee experience

This collective volume focuses on early childhood education for children with refugee backgrounds in Greece, highlighting the institutional, pedagogical, and social challenges that hinder their equitable access to education. Through theoretical analyses and empirical accounts, it emphasizes the need for inclusive policies and educational practices that acknowledge the children’s linguistic and cultural capital and foster

Backpack ID – Multimodal teacher’s kit

BACKPACK ID is an innovative intervention for promoting the inclusion of refugee children at school in 4 European countries (Greece and Italy, Germany and Sweden), which are met with acute and very diverse challenges by the ongoing refugee crisis. The outputs of the programme include: a students’ narratives e-book (a collection of students’ Personal Books

Motivation in Education

Every school context is unique and every educational effort has as its starting point a full understanding of it. Nothing can be done without taking into account the needs of children, the way they perceive reality, the questions they have, the obstacles they encounter in understanding. In order to succeed in mobilising the learning processes,

“This is not a normal school… that’s the difference”: echoes of the inclusive actions of a teachers’ association in Athens during the pandemic through the eyes of school mothers.

This thesis explores the effects of the inclusive actions of a teachers’ association during the pandemic, which had the central aim of not excluding any child from the educational process. The field of the research is a public school in the center of Athens, with a high percentage of refugee/immigrant children, the majority of whom

Pandemic covid – 19 and educational exclusions: Mapping the practices of refugee students at the Ritsona Refugee Accommodation Centre

The present ethnography analyzes how students-residents in the Ritsona refugee camp are systematically excluded from typical education by the Greek state during the covid – 19 pandemic. Furthermore, by adopting an approach that focuses on both vulnerability and resistance, it examines the forms of collective resistance and the gendered processes of subjectification of the Youth